Abstract

Physician-Assisted Suicide; Terminal Illness; State Constitutions

Year: 2001 Source: Mental Disability law Reporter, v.25, no.6, (November-December 2001), p.919-920 SIEC No: 20030292

This article presents the Alaska Supreme Court ruling that denied that the state’s constititution’s gurarantees of privacy & liberty implied a right to physician-assisted suicide. Several similar American legal judgments are presented & discussed. (SC)